Links and documentation related to LaTeX, TeX and MikTeX
AMSTeX/AMSLaTeX
Problems with amstex. The command "\input amstex" in a file seems to
throw off miktex. How does one get around this problem? I need to process this
command for TeXing any file to be published in the Proceedings of the AMS
Are you trying to use AMSTeX or AMS-Latex. These are two different programs.
AMS-Latex is included in miktex, and is accessed using the miktex latex command. The
relevant file used to be called amstex.sty. The current version of this is called
amsmath.sty. It is invoked in latex with the command \usepackage{amsmath}.
AMSTEX is apparently not included in miktex, which may be why you are having trouble.
This is a package that can be used in TeX rather than Latex, and is usually invoked
with the command \input amstex. I downloaded AMSTEX, and installed in in my
localtexmf directory. It works fine for me (I just checked). I am using miktex
1.11, but have not installed the various updates to miktex. I think you can download
AMSTEX from either CTAN or the AMS. Be sure to refresh the filename database after
you install it.
BibTeX
If you need interactive editing of BibTeX, *.bib files, look at http://www.tcisoft.com/bibdb.html
Spanish BibTeX documentation sites: http://feynman.faii.etsii.upm.es/seidel/
and ftp://tex.unirioja.es/pub/tex/doc
Babel, spanish version 1.0. Look CTAN at: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/macros/latex/packages/babel/contrib/spanishb/
The Excalibur Standard Dictionary ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu//pub/mac/Excalibur_2.5.2.sit.hqx
If you only need the updated version: ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu//pub/mac/Excalibur_2.5.2-nodict.sit.hqx
Spanish Dictionary to be usesd with Ispell http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~coes/coesesp.html
Spanish Dictionary: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/es.zip.
Look also at ftp://tex.unirioja.es
or at CTAN:...\systems\win32\winedt\contributions.
How to include a reference with the help of bibtex.
The Documentation is in your miktex installation under doc/bibtex. You might
try also the book "The LaTeX Companion", published by Addison-Wesley. The
following steps will help.
1) Decide on a directory where you will keep your bibtex database, which are all your
*.bib files. You can have one *.bib file or dozens filed by category or particular
authors. The same database files will be used for ALL your LaTeX papers.
DO NOT keep separate *.bib files in the directories w/your papers. BiBTeX is
smart, and you don't want redundancy.
Now see the MiKTeX local guide or the help files in doc/miktex to configure miktex with a
bibtex path.
For instance, my *.bib files are in c:\users\xxx\Bibliographies and here is an excerpt
from my miktex.ini file:
[BibTeX]
Input
Dirs=.;c:\users\xxx\Bibliographies//;%R\bibtex//
2) Following is a file with 3 entries, save it as test.bib in the directory you just
decided upon. See if you can have library
search results emailed to yourself, then you can convert the results you receive in the
mail directly to BiBTeX format. For instance, see r2b and ref2bib they convert from
REFER format to BiBTeX format. They reside at BiBNeT, described in (3)
% Here is the start of test.bib
@String{pub-SIAM = "Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics"}
@String{pub-SIAM:adr = "Philadelphia, PA,USA"}
@InCollection{Berger:1983:DSA,
author = "Marsha Berger",
title = "Data Structures for
Adaptive Mesh Refinement",
crossref = "Babuska:1983:ACM",
publisher = pub-SIAM,
address = pub-SIAM:adr,
pages = "??",
year = "1983",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/b/berger-marsha-j.bib",}
@Book{Babuska:1983:ACM,
editor = "Ivo Babuska and Jagdish Chandra
and Joseph E. Flaherty",
title = "Adaptive computational
methods for partial differential equations",
publisher = pub-SIAM,
address = pub-SIAM:adr,
pages = "xii + 251",
year = "1983",
ISBN = "0-89871-191-6",
LCCN = "QA377 .A29 1983",
bibdate = "Tue Oct 11 12:35:12 1994",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/b/berger-marsha-j.bib",}
@TechReport{Bethe-HA42,
author = {H. A. Bethe},
title = {The theory of shock waves for an arbitrary equation of state},
institution = {Office of Scientific Research and Development},
year = 1942,
number = 545,
abstract = {You can have an abstract, it will not appear in your LaTeX'd paper}}
% Here is the end of test.bib
3) Here is a LaTeX file, save it as it.tex. Then at the command prompt, latex it
<- No .extension required.
bibtex it
latex it
latex it
(I'm going on a limb here, I didn't try this, I hope I have no mistakes.)
% Here is the start of it.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
While this \cite{Bethe-HA42} is a masterful report, it is unfortunate that Bethe didn't
have LaTeX.
You can find bibliography files of many authors as part of the BibNet Project. The
master copy is available for public access on ftp.math.utah.edu in the directory tree
/pub/bibnet/authors. For instance, the paper \cite{Berger:1983:DSA} is from Marsha
Berger's file at that site. Her file is particularly sophisticated, with strings
defined and cross-references used.
%\bibliographystyle{you could uncomment this and change the style in these braces}
% Now tell bibtex what *.bib file(s) to readin.
% You could have a comma seperated list of files, no extensions required.
% No spaces before or after filenames, just
% \bibliography{file1,file2,file3}
\bibliography{test}
\end{document}
% This is the end of it.tex
A perl script to convert Refer format to bibtex format. The script is from:
http://www.math.utah.edu/ftp/pub/bibnet/index.html
Dviwin
Dviwin previewer: ftp://ftp.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/SISTA/minten/soft/NTemacs:
For installation tips of dviwin previewer, read Minten's page http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~minten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html
Here is info about xdviwin. You may need to update your commctl32.dll from:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/COM32UPD.EXE
To download xdviw32 beta look at: ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32-beta/
or at ftp://free.kaist.ac.kr/TeX/beta/
If you want dvips 5.74(Copyright 1997 by Radical Eye Software) (MiKTeX 1.09) go
to: www.radicaleye.com
To use DVIPS,alone with the RedMon "Redirection Port Monitor" (created by
Russell Lang, the author of
GSview). What it does: RedMon allows transparent PostScript printing from Windows
95(/98?) and NT. See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/
for details. Once you have set up a redirected port (named "RPT1:" for example),
you should be able to print directly to the printer from DVIPS using the command line
option "-o!RPT1:" So your users can still print using a single "DOS
box" command.
There is a nice documentation in the Web for installation dictionaries. Look for it at:
http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/
Emacs, AucTeX, NTMacs, GNU
Emacs, LaTeX etc, for your PC (Win 95/NT) http://web.math.auc.dk/~dethlef/Tips/likehere.html:
Installation instructions for emacs http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/%7Eminten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html
and http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~minten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html
Sooner or later, you will find out that Emacs is better than any other editor.
To install NTemacs together with AuCTeX(major model for Latex in emacs), ReFTeX(for label,
reference and citation) and Ispell can be found at:
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~minten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html
Place where you can find information on the emacs and auctex: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/%7Eminten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html
AucTeX provides the best TeX environment to be ever found. Check: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
Auctex, the standard with xemacs, but not included in emacs. It works fine with
NTemacs. See: http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/
and also http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/%7Eminten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html
NTEmacs and AucTeX. For download instructions, see e.g.:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/sgmlhtfiles.html
For emacs and auctex installation see:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/sgmlhtemacs.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/sgmlhtauctex.html
If you have any question in relation to Emacs(NT FAQ) go to:
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Win32/ntEmacs/docs/ntemacs.html#windows-like-cua
Port of GNU Emacs to windows NT at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
Information about gnuclientw http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html#assoc
For emacs, follow the directions on the NT_emacs home page: ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/docs/ntemacs.html
An internet page which describes the implementation of miktex and emacs: Native 32-bit TeXing on PC.
Iinformation available about Emacs for win95/NT: GNU Emacs for Windows NT
and Windows 95
The Windows 95/NT GNU RCS Component Software: http://www.componentsoftware.com/
For GNU latest release: The GNU-Win32 Project
Site for NTEmacs: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Win32/ntEmacs/docs/ntemacs.html
Ntemacs, a free text editor for LaTeX. To be used in conjunction with AUC-TeX
package.
Notes: what’s the advantages of AUC over LaTeX? AucTeX does not replace LaTeX,
rather it is an editing-and-compiling mode for LaTeX in emacs. A few nice features: it
runs LaTeX, and then parses the log file. So, instead of running LaTeX, finding an error,
stopping, and doing the whole thing again, you can run LaTeX all the way through, and then
have AucTeX bring you to each error LaTeX finds in succession. Also, some nice input
features: command completion or menu-driven entry, matching $s, etc, and some formatting
of the input (.tex) file. And syntax highlighting, etc. In short, AUCTeX is a TeX-editing
environment with many useful features like syntax-shortcuts, and so on. It sits on top of
LaTeX. Get it at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html#tex
A self-extracting version of NTEmacs, that should work on Win95 also. Its
version 19.34.6 and weights in as a 7.5mb download – This installation contains the
full binaries, but no source. http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~skx/win/
Try Ispell for NTemacs: Ispell 4.0 can be found at http://mohawk.cat.rpi.edu/~tibbetts/ispell_toc.html
and ispell 3.1 at ftp://ftp.tue.nl/pub/tex/GB95/ispell-dutch96/
Gnuplot in unix and Windows versions. See http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot_info.html
A new version of Emacs can be found at ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/i386/README
Graphics Software
GnuPlo: To plot graphs from equations or data files. It outputs many formats
includung Postscript and LaTeX picture environment. See ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gptwin32.zip
or http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot_info.html
or
http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/doc/gnu/gnuplot.html.
DPlot Home page: http://smd4d.wes.army.mil/
For plotting, look at the various packages at www.gnu.org
A good design package running under WindowsNT suitable for drawing and
particularly graphs: Mayura Draw,see
http://www.mayura.com. See the instructions at http://www.mayura.com/ps2ai.htm.
Another graphic pack: tkpaint is easier to use with more functionality. The
url: http://netanya.ac.il/~samy/tkpaint.html
Drawings are saved in a special format, but you can easily export to encapsulated
postscript without any problems. It's free, too.
If you need to download jpeg2ps go to Thomas Merz web page http://www.ifconnection.de/~tm/.
If you REALLY need to include JPEG files on the fly, there is a way. First put
jpeg2ps.exe in your path (probably texmf/miktex/bin). Here's an example that just
now worked for me (using MiKTeX):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.JPG}{eps}{*}{`jpeg2ps #1}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics [width=\textwidth , bb= 20 20 575 575]{slope.JPG}
\end{document}
The bb= stuff is the bounding box information TeX needs. So where did these numbers
come from? I ran jpeg2ps in a dos command line and created an eps file, then opened
the file to get the numbers. Even though tex calls jpeg2ps on the
fly and must generate these numbers, apparantly there's no way to get tex to use these
numbers; they must be in the \includegraphics command.
Thus, this method is worthwhile only if you have a large number of jpeg image files all of
the same size.
If you scanned an image, convert/save the scanned image to eps format. For
instructions go to ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps.
They will tell you everything else you need to know.
I think it is often still best to convert things to eps and generate Postscript files with
dvips. To do this I like to convert bitmaps to
jpeg format and then use jpeg2ps to convert this to eps. This makes small eps files since
it keeps the jpeg compression (You need level 2 Postscript.). I got jpeg2ps from http://www.ifconnection.de/~tm/
As far as coverting bitmaps I often use Irfan View http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/. It
is a nice viewer, can convert between a number of formats (it can do multiple files in
batch mode), can crop and cut and paste, and other stuff. It is freeware if you use it at
home, the author would like a small fee if you use it at work.
Psfrag package, at CTAN, /macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag. It will replace a
label of your choice in your
PostScript figure with properly typeset text of your specification. So you don't
have to try to place formulas or symbols, etc. in your figures.
1) If you have the Cygwin package http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
and an X server, you can compile xfig
itself.
2) A very credible lookalike has been written in Java: http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/javafig/
It lacks a few features of the full xfig(rotated text and alignment commands being the
ones I miss most) but
may do quite well for you.
3) Try SmartDraw Profession (v4), see www.smartdraw.com
TkPaint is a very capaple vector drawing program with eps-export. It's available for both
Windows and Unix. Windows: http://www.netanya.ac.il/~samy/tkpaint.html
Unix: http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/misc/tkpaint.html
A good freeware graphics converter (.bmp, .jpg., .gif, etc. to .eps) for
Win95/98? You can download the Viewer Pro from www.freewarehome.com
. It doesn't convert to vector graphics so the files will be quite large. One program
which can trace a vextor graphic from a bitmap format is Corel Draw. Try also,
IrfanView: http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/.
Another one,
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html.
Use ImageMagic to convert Latex files to Html. Use it for
converting equations from eps to gif format. Moreover, convert bitmaps to JPEG then use
jpeg2ps to put an eps
wrapping on it. That way the jpeg compression is retained and the file size is small. This
works for Postscript level 2. Get it from: jpeg2ps http://www.ifconnection.de/~tm/ or from
CTAN.
LaTeX and TeX
TUG Membership: http://www.tug.org.
Introduction to TeX and LaTeX. You can find brilliant
introductions both to TeX and LaTeX2e at CTAN:/tex-archive/info. Look for lshort2e for
LaTeX (tex, dvi, ps, and pdf formats) and gentle.tex for TeX.
If you need information concerning TeX and/or LaTeX, visit our page on TeX and LaTeX resources.
For lshort2e go to: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/info/lshort/
or any of the many mirror sites.
For the Spanish speaking community, fonts for ``Una Descripción de LaTeX2e'' can be found
at ftp://ftp.cma.ulpgc.es/pub/tex/latex2e/doc/ldesc2e,
versions 0.3 and 0.4. As an alternative, if you use Adobe's Acrobat go to http://www.cma.ulpgc.es/users/bautista/other/ldesc2e.pdf.
If you need "Una Descripción de LaTeX2e", write to : bautista@cma.ulpgc.es or visit Tomas
Bautista Home Page at: http://www.cma.ulpgc.es/users/bautista.
Look also at the directory: ftp://ftp.cma.ulpgc.es/pub/tex/latex2e/doc/ldesc2e/mix,
there you will find a Zip package, a Tar package and a gzip pack. Also there is a
postscript document file, and a new pdf.
Macros and packages for LaTeX: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/other/comment
TeX and Friends: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/develop/tex/
Information about LaTeX: http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc7795/LaTeX.html
LaTeX Textbooks:
Leslie Lamport's LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual
The Latex Companion by Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin
Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach. The LaTeX Graphics companion.
A Guide to LaTex2e, by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly, Addison Wesley, 1997, ISBN
0-201-42777-X.
All of them from Addison Wesley.
There is also apparently a Latex Graphics Companion which is good if you use a lot of
graphics. Further information on references can be found at http://www.tug.org/interest.html#dochttp://www.tug.org/interest.html#doc
and
http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/info/index.html.
If you want to know about some of the best TeX and LaTeX books available for purchase
online please visit: TeX and LaTeX
Books: Our Favorites, or order your favorite from Cyber Math Virtual Bookstore.
However, the real trick to learning TeX/LaTeX is getting someone in your field to give you
copies of the TeX files for some nicely done papers. I can't imagine trying to learn
TeX by any method other than seeing how someone has done it right for your own field.
I am pretty sure that the xxx archive http://xxx.lanl.gov/
posts the TeX source files for the papers stored there. You might look there for
some good samples.
How to learn LaTeX. A piece of advice.
1.) Read. From CTAN: info/gentle.tex a gentle introduction to TeX info/epslatex.ps
EPS graphics in LaTeX 2e documents.
FILES.byname file (nearly 4 MB!) so you can see what is in CTAN.
From CTAN or in your tex directory tree: tds.dvi "A Directory Structure for TeX
Files" to help you figure a sane way to maintain your TeX tree. It comes with MiKTeX,
texmf\doc\general\tds.dvi
2.) Buy 3 books: (Who said using LaTeX was going to be free?). See above. Be aware
of where you can borrow Knuth. The TeXBook. Because sometimes you need a little TeX
with your LaTeX.
3.) Get example LaTeX files from other people.
4.) Learn BibTeX IMMEDIATELY. As soon as you have to type in your very first
reference in a bibliography, you will be
farther ahead to learn BibTeX. It's easier to learn than most things in LaTeX.
The first 2 books(above) I mentioned cover it, and there is documentation for
it in your MiKTeX distribution. In fact... when you do literature searches on line, see if
you can save them electronically. At least if you can save them in REFER format, then you
can convert them with a perl script (or a mode in the emacs editor) to a BibTeX file.
The converters are at CTAN (I think), or search for Nelson Beebe's BibTeX site (somewhere
at math.utah.edu). Be aware of the makebst program to produce custom made bibliography
styles (don't actually learn it until you have to, there's plenty of
pre-defined bibliography styles.)
5.) Consider XEmacs for your editor if/when you are in Unix as it can display equations in
a kind of wysiwyg mode with the
x-symbol package (which you can find by web search). An emacs/Unix guru might need
to help install that package. Be warned ... "Learning XEmacs is a lifelong
activity." http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html#SEC2
It's more than an editor. It's a way of life.
6.) Use PSFrag for typesetting text in EPS graphics. You'll find it described in
epslatex.ps 'This is a marvel.
7.) Read comp.text.tex newsgroup. Caution: high traffic.
8.) There's a Tex Users Group (TUG). You may consider join it.
BibTeX and PSFrag are easy to put off, but they are gems. You save time and
heartache by learning them up front.
Latex by examples. Take a look at: http://www.ams.org/tex/author-info.html.
If you are looking for books about LaTeX, go the site of Addison Wesley: http://www2.awl.com
Spanish Babel now available: In the CTAN website you can now find version 1.1
of spanishb. As before look for it at
macros/latex/packages/babel/contrib/spanishb.
How to delete files associated with LaTeX and avoid lossing hard drive space.
Set an association for .tex extension with a batch file, say texme.bat, which looks
like this:
me %1
del *.aux
del *.log
del *.bak
del *.dvi rem -- optional
where "me" is an editor (Multi-Edit), which I use as a shell (exactly as WinEdt or TeXshell or TeXed).
To adjust margins look for the package vmargin. It is available on
CTAN.
For an APA style, search CTAN (http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/)
for apa.sty.
Help for LaTeX: http://sea.am.ub.es/Latex/ltx-2.html
Macintosh TeX and LaTeX Web Site: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
Tex and PyTeX users page( in Spanish): http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/pyttex.htm
Python utility for doing Rumbaugh OO boxes in Tex: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/texpython.htm
True Type in pdfLaTeX: http://quantum.bitp.kiev.ua/radamir/ttf-pdf.htm
The "caption" package to be used in conjunction with LaTeX, can be find at:
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/caption
If you need the style wrapfig: ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/wrapfig.sty.
A searchable index on a www page: http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index.
The UK TeX Archive has an excellent alphabetically ordered catalogue. You can
download the files needed for getting caption2.sty from there. The URL is: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/ctindex.html.
How to use the newcommand in order to generated natural integer, rational and
real number sets symbols, respectively:
\newcommand{\N}{\mbox{$I\!\!N$}}
\newcommand{\Z}{\mbox{$Z\!\!\!Z$}}
\newcommand{\Q}{\mbox{$I\:\!\!\!\!\!Q$}}
\newcommand{\R}{\mbox{$I\!\!R$}}
If you have installed AMS packages, include the pack <<amsfonts>> thru
\mathbb. You can define some macros as follows:
> \usepackage{amsfonts}
> \newcommand{\N}{\mathbb{N}}
> \newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}}
> \newcommand{\C}{\mathbb{C}}
Thereafter, use \N, \R or \C, where you need them. You must use $$, to use them in
equations or text.
If you define your macros as
\newcommand{\N}{\ensuremath{\mathbb{N}}}
\newcommand{\R}{\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}}
\newcommand{\C}{\ensuremath{\mathbb{C}}}
you will be able to use them within the text without having to go to math mode.
If you use AMSFonts package in Blackoard Bold, write \mathbb{N,Z,Q,R,C} If necessary you
might load,
\input amssym.def
\input amssym
(use, \usepackage if LaTeX).
Another way,
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\newcommand{\N}{\mbox{$I\!\!N$}}
\newcommand{\Z}{\mbox{$Z\!\!\!Z$}}
\newcommand{\Q}{\mbox{$I\:\!\!\!\!\!Q$}}
\newcommand{\R}{\mbox{$I\!\!R$}}
\newcommand{\C}{\mbox{$I\:\!\!\!\!\!C$}}
\newcommand{\M}{\mbox{$I\!\!I$}}
\newcommand{\D}{\mbox{$I\!\!D$}}
\newcommand{\E}{\mbox{$I\!\!E$}}
\newcommand{\F}{\mbox{$I\!\!F$}}
\newcommand{\DE}{\mbox{$D\;\!\!\!\!\!\!\!E$}}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
\section{}\noindent
This simbol represent the Natural numbers \N\\
This simbol represent the Whole numbers \Z\\
This simbol represent the Rational numbers \Q\\
This simbol represent the Irrationals numbers \M\\
This simbol represent the Real numbers \R\\
This simbol represent the Complex numbers \C\\
This simbol represent the operator \D, or \F or \E \\
This simbol represent the famous {\huge \DE}\\
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage{textcomp}
This is the Euro sign: {\sffamily\texteuro\ }\\
\end{document}
In Plain TeX:
\font\msbmnormal=msbm10
\font\msbmpeq=msbm7
\font\msbmmuypeq=msbm5
\newfam\numeros
\textfont\numeros=\msbmnormal
\scriptfont\numeros=\msbmpeq
\scriptscriptfont\numeros=\msbmmuypeq
\def\num{\fam\numeros\msbmnormal}
\def\N{{\num N}}
\def\R{{\num R}}
%If we leave a space between the last two braces " }" of the definition of the
macro \R and \N it will not be necessary to add %a second \ in \R\, to have a
space therafter. However, this have the inconvinience of leaving a space when followed by
a %punctuation sign.
\magnification=1200
\centerline {\bf COMMENTS:}
\bigskip
\This is the \R\ of the Real Numbers, and to denote the Natural Numbers we use \N.
What we have defined works not only in math mode but outside it. For example, the letters
$\num ABCD$ are written in math mode, but {\num Z} is not, neither is {\num PQ}.
Moreover, thanks to the definition as a "family of letters", in math mode they
change size automatically when used as subscripts or subscripts-subscripts. This is better
seem in the following example.
$$\{p_n(x)\}_{n\in\N} .$$
It does not matter that it is written within text, $\{p_n(x)\}_{n\in\N}$, it keep
looking good.
\end
% If we use a much simpler definition
% \font\msbm=msbm10
% \def\R{\hbox{\msbm R}}
% \def\N{\hbox{\msbm N}}
% then the R and the N of the Real and Natural Numbers does not becomes smaller when used
as a subscript
Another place where to find the Euro sign: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html.
If you go to http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/ctan>
you might end up with a big list, but somo of the links can be useful.
For example, ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym.
For Postscript take a look at: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym.
The Euro symbol is in the package: textcomp.sty. This mean at the beginning of the
document you must type: \usepackage{textcomp}. Then to print the symbol use
\texteuro
If you need to know what other symbols are contained in the package do as follows: latex
textcomp.ins. You will get test.tex
then, latex test.tex and finally, xdvi test.dvi.
Fonts related to Euro from Adobe: ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/mac/all/eurofont.sea.hqx.
This are for those using the Mac. If you use a PC, ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/pc/all/eurofont.sea.hqx
To download the afms for Times, Helvetica, Courier, Palatina etc., go to 'some
ctan' /systems/msdos/4alltex/diskp2
There are also tfms in the directory. For future reference, I recommend http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ctan-index
to search the whole CTAN directory structure for any pattern.
I have the following problem: I have a source code of program included in my
document in verbatim environment and now I would like to add some comments to this
program, that reference to the equations described elsewhere in the text. How to manage it
(i.e. how to execute regular LaTex commands from verbatim env.)?
There is a recent released package called fancyvrb at CTAN that can manage this. I am
attaching an example that worked to me. This package can be found at ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyvrb/
A short example follows:
%%%% example using fancyvrb %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\begin{document}
A test with equation:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:01}
2*2=4
\end{equation}
was typeset as
\begin{Verbatim}[commandchars=+\[\]]
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:01}
2*2=4
\end{equation}
and the command \ref{eq:01} produces the number +ref[eq:01]
\end{Verbatim}
\end{document}
%%%%%%%%% Example ends here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Euro Sign. The following commands give you the euro symbol: ...
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
...
bla {\sffamily\texteuro\ }blablabla ...
If you need teTeX look for it at ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/comp/tex/teTeX.
Is there a tool to convert MS-Word formatted files to LaTeX (at least the main part of
the formating work...)?
K-Talk has some commercial tools, http://www.ktalk.com/index.html
Package to convert latex to html for WindowsNT-platforms.
Try 'TechExplorer' in IBM web site. Just search it in yahoo, you will not miss it.
See also, latex2html! The package is based on the Perl interpreter which is available for
Win95/NT as well(see http://www.ActiveWare.com/
). Latex2html is - compared to MikTeX - a bit hard to install, but the results (including
formulas and pictures, is good. You can find it on CTAN (.../pub/tex/systems/win32/web2c).
Perl installation is just running a setup program.
latextohtml converter on a Win95 computer ftp://ftp.duke.edu/tex-archive/systems/win32/web2c/l2h-win32.tar.gz
You'll find GDBM_File in sources and in precompiled binaries at http://www.roth.net/perl/GDBM
WebEQ is a 100% pure Java system for creating and displaying interactive scientific Web
documents. To gain access try: http://www.webeq.com.
Seeking for a converter LaTeX to HTML. There is one quite simple and works under
Solaris and Unix:
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth
An article on "Using LaTeX to Create Quality PDF Documents for the WWW": look at
www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/acrotex.html)
The distribution of the french latex on ftp://ftp.univ-rennes1.fr/pub/GUTenberg/french/.
To build up decision trees using latex. Look up the package called QobiTree, at http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index
Chof’s TeX archives. Mostly in Korean: http://free.kaist.ac.kr/ChoF/
In http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/100/122054/texwin.htm
I have listed 17 shells or guis for tex/latex/bibtex. Listed programs are free- and
shareware. See also http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex_engl.html
for some useful hints.
Where I can get "revtex.cls"? Look for it at ctan. There's an index at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/ctindex.html
revtex.cls, incidentally, would belong to the American Physical Society and they'd be a
good starting point for the file if it's not at ctan. Look also at ftp://ftp.aps.org/pub/revtex
How to get in latex command the 'registered' symbol (The capital R enclosed by a
circle). A couple of ways:
$\textcircled {R}$
I have also used it as a superscript like this $^{\textcircled {\scriptsize R}}$
Try also: \newcommand{\Rtrademark}{$^{\text{\textcircled{\tiny R}}}$}
or, \textregistered
The "L" symbol for a Laplace Transform. In order to create the Laplace
L you need to install the mathrsfs.sty and
mathrsfs.rme files as well as for metafont rsmf10.mf,rsfs5.mf and rsfs7.mf. All files are
available on the CTAN. For more information see the Dante FAQ 8.1.2
Another solution: There are script fonts in AmS-TeX (as
well as AmS-LaTeX);though, L isn't that fancy there (try it). In
AmS-TeX it suffices to say \Cal L in math mode.
Another option: Install the rsfs fonts (Ralph Smith's Formal Script Symbol Fonts), they do
indeed look great. The file mathrsfs.rme (readme) and mathrsfs.sty are in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen (and lots of other is in this directory as well)
and the font files are in fonts/rsfs. There is a subdirectory of rsfs with type1 fonts
(afm, pfm, and pfb files). Put all of this in a localtexmf directory and mimic tds
(good idea? seems to be a lot of trouble).
Another TeX and LaTeX engine, VTeX: The NTG board. WWW: http://www.ntg.nl;
e-mail: ntg@ntg.nl
address: NTG / PO Box 394 / 1740 AJ Schagen / The Netherlands
The release of VTeX 6.2 for the first time enabled TeX users to create quality Acrobat
document mixing text and graphics, designing the new document compiler was only part of
our work. To get the best out of TeX and PDF one also needs quality fonts.
We therefore have developed two new font families:
HV-math
and
TM-math
HV-math supplements the standard Adobe Helvetica with all symbols required for TeX
typesetting; TM-math does the same for the Times Roman.
Both families include both regular and bold variants and are supplied in the Type 1
format. They can be used with either VTeX's PDF mode or with the PostScript output from
the DVI mode. You can use them with other DVI drivers, provided that you have the ATM
installed.
The intended use for TM-math is a replacement for the Computer Modern for documents where
the quality and traditional appearance is important. HV-math can be used as such
replacement as well; in addition, you can use it for presentations/slides, or for the
title lines within TM-text.
More detailed descriptions and samples of the new families are posted on our Web site.
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/hfonts.htm
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/tfonts.htm
Some additional URL's for sample documents are:
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/paper-hv.pdf
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/paper-tm.pdf
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/math-hv.pdf
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/math-tm.pdf
For comparison, we also provide the same documents compiled with the CM fonts:
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/math-cm.pdf
http://www.micropress-inc.com/samples/paper-cm.pdf
We will appreciate if you let us know what you think about these samples and what other
fonts would be most useful for your work. The introductory price for either family is only
US $100; you must have VTeX 6.2 to use them.
The up-to-date patches are now posted on our Web site. Notice that the current version of
the software is 6.21 and if you
have already noticed and downloaded the "to620" patch you should get the
"620to621" as well.
Version 6.21 has a couple of new features (page background in the PDF mode (the \pagecolor
command in graphicx) and a workaround for a major bug in Adobe's Distiller) and fixes a
couple of minor problems of EPS inclusion reported to us. Additional details on the
changes in 6.21are in the current README.PDF file which can be downloaded from the
http://www.micropress-inc.com/patches/vpatch.htm
page.
In addition, our web page now has the online description of 6.2/GeX: http://www.micropress-inc.com/gex/gex.htm
TeX and LaTeX resources for the spanish speaking peoples. For a list of
members together with information about CervanTeX ( a TeX and LaTeX user groups for
Spanish Speaking Peoples) go to: http://gordo.us.es/Actividades/GUTH
or better, to the CervanTeX official page: http://gordo.us.es/Actividades/CervanTeX/CervanTeX.html.
CervanTeX has been under creation since two years ago. To read their newly approved bylaws
go to: ftp://tex.unirioja.es/pub/tex/estatutos.tex
or better http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dmc/jvarona/estatutos.txt.
Page of spanish users of latex / pagina de usuarios en espanyol de latex: www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/pyttex.htm.
Page of drawing utility for tex / pagina de utilidad de dibujo para Latex: www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/texpython.htm
There are two excellent web-resources for LaTeX. There is a newsgroup entirely
devoted to TeX and LaTeX: news:comp.text.tex. Deja
News archives the posts to this newsgroup, and offers a useful search engine:
http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml.
Chemistry in Tex/LaTeX: Check out chemtex in
//ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex209/supported and other 'chem' packages in
//ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/supported. Try programs such as chemsketch or
IsisDraw. They a free for
noncommercisl use. Formulas can be imported via eps into latex documents. Addresses can be
found in Stevens chemistry software page for windows: http://nmr400a.mols.susx.ac.uk/~steven/mswin.html
Are 7pt, 8pt and 9pt options (size7.clo, size8.clo and size9.clo) for article.cls
available somewhere? Take a look at:
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~may/Extsizes/.
There are the options 8pt and 9pt in the AMS-classes amsart.cls, amsbook,cls,
amsproc.cls.CTAN: macros/ latex /packages/amslatex/. In addition you can find a 9pt.clo on
page http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~may/extsizes.html
I would like to ask is it possible to work with cyrrilic alphabet and where are
location to download what is necessary. For cyrillic text and Russian is T2/X2
package. See: http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/sergei/cy/tex.html
There is a CTAN Server with a search index where you can find all classes, styles,
fonts and so on. Take a look at:
http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index
How to transfer lots of data between a msdos machine (win 3.X) and a win95/98:
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/orknorr/windcc.html
How to use TrueType fonts with TeX (pdfTeX) and LaTeX (pdfLaTeX): http://quantum.bitp.kiev.ua/radamir/ttf-tex.htm.
MSPS is a set of MS core fonts (free for non-commercial use, as far as I know)---
Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New in Postscript Type 1 format, reencoded so that only
T2A+LCY symbols are left. This includes English characters. Find it at: http://quantum.bitp.kiev.ua/radamir/msps.htm.
I'm writing a proposal using LaTeX (MikeTeX) and I want to include some references. Can
some one help me and show me how to write the references section!! I need the format of
references to start with Name and Year; i.e., not with a number.
Solution: consider the natbib package found on CTAN. It can do exactly what
you'd like. I also have used it together with the package makebib. The second
package allows you to customize the order in which specific elements appear in each item
on the reference list.
German umlaute in source code: If you need to use äöüß in the Source Code.
Take a look at: http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/umlaute.html
Moreover, WinEdt can automatically convert your input from äöüß to
\"a\"o\"u\ss or whatever... Here's a snippet from the Helpfile:
Spelling and International Characters [..]
For Example:
Read:
"\`{\i}" -> "ì"
"\'{\i}" -> "í"
"\^{\i}" -> "î"
Write:
"ì" -> "\`{\i}"
"í" -> "\'{\i}"
"î" -> "\^{\i}"
[..] while your sources remain 100% portable. [..] Please note that using
"ansinew" codepage for LaTeX still allows you to explicitly translate a file
when it is "imported" or before it is "exported". All this is
configured in "Options - Settings - Translations" You can define that for a lot
of strings/characters... e.g. that you type "©" and WinEdt writes
"{\copyright}"...
Large letters: There's this short hack, using TeX commands:
\font\HHuge=cmr12 at 10cm
{\HHuge This is big!}
Also, take a look at http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~may/.
There you will find files sizeXX.clo, where XX=14,17,20 to make large letters
Another solution. Since MiKTeX comes with LaTeX and the graphicx package, why not
take advantage of the graphics commands? Something like
\usepackage{graphicx}
\scalebox{3}{Some big text}
Will increase the size of the text threefold. And I don't know of any (explicit)
hardwired limits to the size of the text.
Python utility for doing Rumbaugh OO boxes in TeX and other TeX tools: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/texpython.htm
How I can get the style file psfrag.sty? Try, ftp://ftp.tut.ac.jp/.h1/TeX/macros/latex209/contrib/psfrag/
A descriptions for packages available for TeX and LaTeX: http://www.tex.ac.uk/
MiKTeX
MiKTeX 1.11 beta 3 is available for download at: http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/downloads.html
A test version of the forthcoming update package is available for download: http://www.snafu.de/user-cgi-bin/cschenk/download.cgi/snapshot-1104.exe
Upgrade package from MikTeX 1.10 to 1.11: http://www.snafu.de/user-cgi-bin/cschenk/download.cgi/110-111b1.zip
The second update package is now available: http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/downloads.html
Guidance for a complete reinstall: http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex_engl.html
FAQ or HowTo about MiKTeX : http://www.math.ku.dk/~jarl/miktex/faq.html
I will appreciate a lot if superusers of miktex will send (what they think are frequently
asked) questions AND answers to me, Jarl Friis at: jarl@math.ku.dk)
MikTeX in German: http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/.
To subscribe in the texk-win32 mailing list write to: texk-win32-request@ese-metz.fr. Only send
a mail with "Subject: subscribe".
You can download zlib.dll from http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/downloads.html.
To update MikTeX (v1.10) with the newest LaTeX2e release (6/98), look for a file
called 'miktex.txt' within the base directory on ctan. In updating
the LaTeX installation we noticed a few inaccuracies in the miktex.txt file that was in
the base directory.
PREPARING THE INSTALLATION
The directions tell you to extract the base directory into /texmf/tex/latex. That won't
work in the next step when you try to run initex on on unpack.ins. initex cannot find
unpack.ins (even though you run it from a dos box in the same directory).
Unfortunately, the file miktex.txt was not updated by the latex-team. The distributed
version was tested with miktex 1.09 and worked fine. Try using WinEdt, load unpack.ins and
everything should ran smoothly.
What I did was to extract everything to a temp directory, run initex and everything else,
and then move the new base directory into the texmf structure. I will check this as soon
as the final version of miktex 1.11 is
available. Hope this will stay until the december-release of latex.
CREATING THE LATEX FORMAT FILE
There is a typo, type: C:\TEXMF\MIKTX\CONFIG\CONFIGURE --update-fndb. Should be type:
C:\TEXMF\MIKTEX\CONFIG\CONFIGURE --update-fndb
HINTS AND TIPS
To check the installation, you should move ltxcheck.tex (misspelled as ltxcheck.ltx in the
instructions) outside the texmf tree.
The final release of MikTeX 1.11 ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/tex/systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
We've update our installation-guidiance for a TeX-System consisting of MiKTeX,
GhostView/GhostScript and WinEdt16 up to MiKTeX 1.11. You could get it under http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex_engl.html
Information about MiKTeX, NTEmacs and AucTeX: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/%7Eminten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html
If you need information related to miktex, winedt, and gsview32 look at: http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex_engl.html
The source code to MiKTeX: http://www.snafu.de/user-cgi-bin/cschenk/download.cgi/miktex-1.10b-source.tar.gz
Zipped MikTeX without sources http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex_engl.html
MikTeX documentationhttp://www.inx.de/~cschenk/miktex/
and http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/
Installation instructions for MikTeX in German.http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex.html and http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/
Translation of german guide to english: http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex_engl.html
If you need help with Windows NT and MikTeX take a look at: http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/100/122054/texwin.htm
Installation instruction for MikTeX in English.ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/1.10/README.TXT
and http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/m.linderer/tex/
A complement to MiKTex documentation. The article by Reckdahl is either of the files: ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps
(Postscript version) or ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/info/epslates.pdf
(PDF version). It is an 85 page report, very well written, with index, etc.
If you want to install LateX2HTML and run it with MiKTeX take the following steps: You
first need to get and install perl 5; latex2html is a set of perl scripts. Check out http://www.ActiveState.com/pw32/ for more info
on how to get perl.
Next, download the latex2html distribution. A version for windows is in the web2c
distribution in the CTAN archive, e.g.
ftp://ftp.duke.edu/tex-archive/systems/win32/web2c/l2h-win32.tar.gz
Note that you will need gunzip and tar to unpack this archive, if you don't have these
utilities already. latex2html also uses some of the netpbm tools, so you need to download
these executables as well. They allow you to convert virtually any image format to
virtually any other image format. For latex people, one of the more useful conversions is
conversion of gif, bmp, etc. to postscript. They are in the same directory as latex2html,
in the file: netpbm-win32.zip. You need to unpack this archive and put the executables
somewhere in you machine's search path. I did this by creating a directory c:\netpbm
containing these executables and adding it to the path by editing my autoexec.bat. I
unpacked all these files into the directory c:\texmf\l2h. Then, in the directory
\texmf\l2h\users, there were several files that I needed to modify to get it to run. One
was local.pm, which tells the locations of several tools that latex2html needs. The way
you need to edit this file depends on where you have things installed on your computer.
You then need to add the environment variable L2HMODULE, setting the value to
c:/texmf/l2h. You can do this just before you run latex2html, or you can put this
definition in autoexec.bat.
Then, to run it, I created a file called l2h.bat in the MiKTeX executables directory. This
file contains the single line:
@perl \texmf\l2h\user\latex2html %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
You might have had to make some small modifications to the win32.config and pstoimg
scripts so that they could find everything ok with MiKTeX.
Software to convert Latex to HTML: Note LaTeX2HTML was written originally for
Unix machines, but there is a "port" for
Windows/DOS. It is a very powerful tool, wich converts your embedded .eps-files *and* your
mathematical formulas into .gif-files (what is looking very good when you compare with the
formula output of TTH), wich were automatically numbered and embedded into the generated
.html-file(s). Also it generates navigation panels at the top of each page (when you like
that).
For interested people. Here are my steps to run these fabulous perl-scripts. You will need
the following files:
Ghostscript 5.50: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get550.html
netpbm.zip: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctan-web-ftp?systems/win32/miktex/util/netpbm.zip&1026008
l2h98_2dos.tar.gz: http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/l2h98_2dos.tar.gz
http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/manual.ps.gz
!!!!!
ActivePerl 509 for Win32: ftp://ftp.ActiveState.com/activeperl/APi509e.exe
or ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/ActivePerl/APi509e.exe
or
http://www.ActiveState.com/activeperl/download/APi509e.exe
Needed for Win95-Users (Perl-documenation says that) http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom1_2/default.htm
Then the following steps:
0. install Perl
1. extract l2h98_2dos.tar.gz to C:\texmf
2. no changes from /usr/.../perl into C:/perl/bin in the recommended files
(install-test ...)
3. add Path to gswin32c.exe to autoexec.bat (problem will be resolved in a
next version of install-test)
4. C:\texmf\latex2html> perl install-test
5. minimal modifications at $Iconserver
6. minimal modifications at latex2html.config and latex2html
7. write l2h-Batch; perl C:\texmf\latex2html\latex2html %1.tex %2 %3
>> %1_l2h.log
8. C:\texmf\latex2html> l2h.bat test
9. :-)
A little problem is (still) there: you have to write the complete path to your .eps-files
into the \includegraphics-command, otherwise dvips (still) can't find the files to
convert.
A site offering a Perl interpreter for Win32: http://www.ActiveState.com
A very good conversion utility at the following url: http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/downloads.html.
It is called TtH and works on tables, equations etc. Equations are translated to
HTML and not mapped in gifs as done by LaTeX2html
Type 1 Fonts and MikTeX. In the document http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/acrotex.html
there are some instructions on how to use Type1 fonts with MikTeX.
A place for * pfb fonts: ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/pfb/
How to avoid printing page numbers in miktex? Do: \pagestyle{empty}
A new help page for MikTeX from Pedro Aphalo: http://cc.joensuu.fi/~aphalo/tex.html
Detailed instructions for getting Eitan Gurari's TeX4ht TeX/LaTeX-to-HTML translator
working under MikTeX at: http://www.arch.ohio-state.edu/crp/faculty/pviton/support/tex4ht.html
CTAN:/support/ttf2mf. ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ttf2mf/
Eitan Gurari, author of the tex4ht tex/latex-to-html translator has just added a feature
designed to minimize the time needed to generate gif files. I've updated my miktex
document to describe the new feature. See http://archadserver.eng.ohio-state.edu/crp/faculty/pviton/tex4ht.html
If you need help with MikTeX use: http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~klug/index_e.html.
The german version is greater. http://LaTeX.megapage.de
Miscellaneous
A Windows NT hints site: http://www.jsiinc.com/
GunZip for Win32: ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/Systems/win32/archiver/gunzip-1.2.4-i386.exe.
Archiplex Form a Search Tool: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/archieplexform.html
If you need infozip: ftp://ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip
or ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/infozip/WIN32/
X-client software: http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/
Try PFE, a very good freeware that works very good with miktex and so on, at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/
The VIM Home Page: http://www.vim.org/
A vi version that runs smoothly on win95. Try VIM, it has
-sytax highlighting for lots of files, including tex
- menus galore, someone even put in a tex/latex menu
- very low cost (charity-ware)
- source code so you can make it do whatever you want.
- portablility from unix to win95, NT, VMS,...
- great support in the comp.editors usenet news group
Look at news://comp.editors or http://www.vim.org and go from there...
To find a version of cygwinb19.dll that handles stdin/stdout from non-cygwin binaries
go to Chris Faylor's Home Page: http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf/.
Introductions to virtual fonts at TeX FAQ:http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=&question=28
A jpeg file converter to eps using a program called jpeg2ps by Thomas Merz.
Downloaded it from http://www.muc.de/~tm.
You can find a new version of dvips on the download page: http://www.snafu.de/user-cgi-bin/cschenk/download.cgi/dvips.zip dos-eps processing should be faster now.
One of the best packages for making commutative diagrams is Xy-pic. Its home
page is here: http://www.diku.dk/research-groups/topps/personal/kris/Xy-pic.html
Gzip is a compression/decompression utility popular in the Unix world. The above
site has executables for MSWindows. http://www.gzip.org/
To include a scanned photgraph into text. The most straightforward thing to
do is convert/save the scanned image
to eps format. The instructions you can get from here ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps
will tell you everything
else you need to know.
Some Fonts found on CTAN: RSFS (http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/rsfs/)
and CALLIGRA (http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/calligra/)
fonts.
The Interactive TeX Editor: http://www.zib.de/Visual/software/ite
The Home Page of Konstantin Vasil'ev: Programming in TeX.
xfig-programs. If you have the Cygwin package (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/) and
an X server, you can compile xfig itself. A very credible lookalike has been written
in Java: http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/javafig/
It lacks a few features of the full xfig (rotated text and alignment commands being the
ones I miss most) but otherwise, may do quite well.
TkPaint is a very capaple vector drawing program with eps-export. It's available for both
Windows and Unix. Windows: http://www.netanya.ac.il/~samy/tkpaint.html.Unix:
http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/misc/tkpaint.html
Try SmartDraw Profession (v4), see www.smartdraw.com
It can import and export as eps files + pdf + many others.
As easy to use as xfig, and text lines can have multiple fonts, so you can write simple
equations.
To get version 0.7.3 of dvipdfm go to: http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/
From bitmap to eps. First convert a bitmap to JPEG and then use jpeg2ps to
convert that to eps. For jpeg2ps convertor, look at http://www.muc.de/~tm.
Tkpaint is a very nice object based drawing program supporting many of the
standard objects (rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons, splines, closed splines, arcs,
pie-wedges, text, arrowheads, snapping-to-grid, included images, etc). It is freely
available at http://www.netanya.ac.il/~samy/tkpaint.html.
To convert wmf to eps. Get converter (wmf2eps) from ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/wmf2eps/
A software to typeset music: LilyPond. Take a look at http://www.realtime.net/~daboys/lilypond/
and http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
Pdf
Using TrueType fonts with pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX: http://quantum.bitp.kiev.ua/radamir/ttf-pdf.htm
The pdfTeX readme file ftp://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/local/cstug/thanh/pdftex/README
There is a mailing list for pdftex at pdftex@mail.tug.org.
Send a mail saying `subscribe pdftex' to majordomo@mail.tug.org
to join. Mails posted to this list are also archived at news://news.muni.cz/cz.muni.redir.pdftex
.
If you need documentation for pdflatex / pdftex look at:http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/pdftexman.pdf
There is also a pdftex FAQ in the works, not much but take a look: news: news.muni.cz where the group is
cz.muni.redir.pdftex. There are also some useful references at http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
Postscript
If you need ghostscript, there is a newer version of GhostScript (5.5) available at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
See also, http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
There is a web page devoted to printer compatibility and Ghostscript. You can find it at: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html
A program to put a Postscript wrapper on a JPEG image: Download it from http://www.muc.de/~tm/.
If you need EPS, there is a shareware package on CTAN called WMF2EPS which works with
Windows to make EPS. For more information write to schulter@temic.dofn.de.
Using EPS Graphics in Latex2e Documents has a good summary of includegraphics and its
options. It is (or at least used to be) available as epslatex.ps from the ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex~archive/info/
directory or other CTAN sites.
How to convert wmf files in eps files: look at ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/wmf2eps/
A list of PS tricks can be found at: http://www.tug.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/pstricks.
The maintainer (Denis Girou) is very active and ready to help.
If you need to render postscript figures try windvi44, using the ghostscript dll. It
comes with web2c but a stand-alone version may be found here: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/web2c/windvi44.zip
A TIFF to EPS conversion utility:One is Image Magick, http://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-4.0.4.tar.gz.
it converts almost any format. You can also use the image tool "Paint Shop
Pro" to convert "Tiff" files to "EPS". The latest version of the
shareware can be downloaded from: http://www.digitalworkshop.co.uk/psp.htm
A program that puts a PostScript wrapper around a JPEG file. This way it
produces pretty compact EPS files. It can be found at http://www.muc.de/~tm/jpeg2ps/index.html.
A new postscript driver from adobe. Pick it up at: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/pdrvwin.htm
In any windows application (like word, excel) you print the picture, diagram ... with that
driver to a file. You have to change the property postscript option = EPS - and that
created ps-file works well in your latex doc.
More fonts: ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/
To convert a prn file to a ps file (a "flatened" ps file), use pstoedit
(look for the canonical archive at ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/pstoedit/pstoedit.2.60.tar.gz
) then use GSView to convert from ps to eps. This can be used by LaTeX.
To Convert samp.* to the JPEG file samp.jpg, use AcdSee32,
which lives at http://www.acdsystems.com.
To Convert samp.jpg to samp.eps, use the program jpeg2ps, which lives at http://www.muc.de/~tm/jpeg2ps/index.html.
Use AcdSee32 to generate * .jpg files from wmf, bmp, dcx, gif, iff, pcd, pcx, pic,
png, psd, tga and tiff
files. The jpeg2ps converter will finish the job. Find shareware at http://www.acdsystems.com
PrintFile at: http://hem1.passagen.se/ptlerup/prfile.html.
It will print text or PostScript files. It has "N-up" for printing multiple
pages per side of paper, both for text and for PostScript files. It can also add
headers and line numbers to text files, good
for printing out program code. Supports drag and drop mode.
If you use Excel and want to be able to edit the table afterwards and not just see and
print (as is the case if you used postscript graphics) then go to: http://www.jam-software.com/software.html#X2L.
IMHO its the best package for trees/decision trees/game. In the documentation you'll find
examples of decision trees and game trees. Check out the examples under http://www.tug.org/applications/PSTricks/
and download it from CTAN.
For more information about importing graphics in LaTeX, there's also a document
(epslatex.ps or epslatex.pdf)
available from CTAN (e.g. ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/)
in the subdirectory info.
If you want, a postscript compatible font go to Y&Y storefront at: http://www.yandy.com/.
There is a website that will covert ps to pdf: http://www.babinszki.com/distiller/.
Postscript Fonts: http://www.phys.washington.edu/~wright/texfonts/index.htm.
pdfLaTeX Fonts: http://quantum.bitp.kiev.ua/radamir/ttf-pdf.htm
Information from Adobe about creating PDF files from TeX with DVIPS. Point browser
to:
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/SOLUTIONS/543e.htm
Adobe's web site about creating PDF from LaTeX. Links: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/SOLUTIONS/543e.htm
and
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/SOLUTIONS/12596.htm
A free graphic converter for WIN95 which handles a lot of formats to open and save the
pictures in colour eps format to include them in my file. Use Image Magick. It's a command
line converter and it works fine. You can find pre-compiled binaries for Win95, for free,
of course at www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/
PS to PDF: If you need to convert a file from PS to PDF, try http://www.babinszki.com/distiller/
Computer Modern and AMSFonts in Type 1 (PostScript): http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html.
The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern and AMSFonts produced by and
previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc., are now freely available
for general use. This has been accomplished through the cooperation of a consortium of
scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y.
A guide to PS fonts for TeX: http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~ichbin/texfonts/
How to install postscript fonts in MikTeX. There a way of getting emacs to
compile Latex code using MikTeX? Finally,
I don't get the colors that emacs is supposed to provide. I've even installed
Auc-tex as described in W Minten's
web page.
You should be in "latex-mode" for latex files. M-x latex-mode (maybe just M-x
tex-mode, try)
More inforamtion: NT emacs home page:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
There are example .emacs files linked to this page, some of them show how to change
colors. They also show how to force emacs to auto-recognize your file types and go into
the right mode automatically.
Other people's helpful pages: http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/tex_engl.html
and http://web.math.auc.dk/~dethlef/Tips/likehere.html
How to feed compressed (zipped or gziped postcript files) to miktex´s dvips.
Look at the document "epslatex.pdf" which you can get from CTAN.../info/. Note
that zip and unzip freeware from InfoZIP
( ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/win32/
) work really well.
Text Editors
The MiKTeX project page has a link to a whole list of text editors. The list was
started by a member
of this newsgroup. look at: http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/100/122054/texwin.htm
Text editor to be used in conjunction with Windows 95 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/
Winedt: (Another good editor for writing Tex, C and C++ files)
ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winedt/
and ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/
WinEdt32 is available from: ftp://ftp.tabu.uni-bonn.de/pub/tools/winedt/
or ftp://nt-newton.fho-emden.de/pub/software/uploads/winedt
or http://www.wavenet.co.uk/ftp/pub/winedt/
WinEdt is shareware ($40 per license), trial copy can be downloaded" from ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32
WinEdt home page is http://home.istar.ca/~winedt
.
You may have a look at http://www.gap.baynet.de/members/werdenfels.gym/tex/
Wtex95: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/wtex95/:
Text editor for windows 3.0: http://maitai.wsi.tu-muenchen.de/wheller/
Another Text Editor for windows 95: http://www.iridis.com/gwd
Another text editor, ultraedit: http://www.idmcomp.com
TextPad HomePage: http://www.textpad.com/
Text editors (GWD and UltraEdit). GWD: http://www.iridis.com/gwd/
and UltraEdit: http://www.idmcomp.com/
A good, free text editor for Win95/NT is PFE. You can find it at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe
Wtex95. It colors latex expressions and the brackets, making it easily to recognize errors
as you type. You can try it for free at, ftp://ftp.loria.fr/pub/unix/tex/ctan/systems/win32/wtex95
For all who needs a TeX-Editor try Dirk Struve's TeXShell32, available at
http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/experi/d3/persons/struve/texshell05/index.html
Programmer's File Editor: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe.
An editor for software programmer's.
In the spirit of friendly competition, I'd just like to note that I have written a WinEdt
plug-in that provides many of the same functions as the LaTeX Wizard. You can find
it at: http://home.istar.ca/~winedt/new.html.
Another editor: EDITEUR (www.studioware.com)
. From inside the editor one can setup programs to execute; for example, compile, view
with YAP, build a ps file (dvips) and view ps (ghost view).
YAP
The latest yap version .93d at http://www.inx.de/~cschenk/miktex/downloads.html
There's now an experimental version 0.94f-2 available. You'll find it at Christian's web site: http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/
The new YAP is available for download: http://www.snafu.de/user-cgi-bin/cschenk/download.cgi/yap094c.zip
An experimental version of vf-enhanced YAP: http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/downloads.html